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One of Britain’s biggest operations of the Afghan war is the task of bringing
more than a decade’s worth military kit back home.

Some 3,345 vehicles and other pieces of large equipment are being transported
out of southern Afghanistan by air or by road and rail. Soldiers are loading
about 5,500 cargo containers with items as they pack away Camp Bastion, the
largest British base in Helmand province, and four other locations.

Most of the British-run forward operating bases and smaller combat outposts
have already been closed over the past two years of transition, with the
Afghan police and army